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The Beatles singles discography

The Beatles singles discography covers the band's 22 UK singles from "Love Me Do" (1962) to "The Long and Winding Road" (1970), most kept off their albums, plus their tangled US releases on Vee-Jay, Swan, and Capitol and 18 UK Number 1s.

The Beatles' Christmas records

The Beatles' Christmas records: seven annual fan-club flexi discs, 1963–1969, with skits, carols, and messages; compiled on 1970's From Then to You and officially reissued in the 2017 Christmas Records box set.

The Beatles' Second Album

The Beatles' Second Album is a Capitol Records US compilation released April 10, 1964 (T 2080/ST 2080), the third Beatles LP issued in America. Its 11 tracks went to Number 1 for five weeks and include first LP appearances of I Call Your Name and Long Tall Sally.

The Bends (album)

The Bends is Radiohead's second studio album, released 13 March 1995 on XL Recordings. Produced by John Leckie, recorded through 1994, it features Fake Plastic Trees, Just, and Street Spirit, and introduced engineer Nigel Godrich.

The Best (song)

"The Best" (also called "Simply the Best") is a Holly Knight and Mike Chapman song, originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler in 1988 and made a worldwide hit by Tina Turner's 1989 cover, later the NSWRL rugby league anthem.

The Best Damn Thing

The Best Damn Thing is Avril Lavigne's third studio album (RCA, April 17, 2007), a pop-punk record led by "Girlfriend" and produced by Dr. Luke, Butch Walker, Rob Cavallo, and Deryck Whibley; it topped US and UK charts and went double platinum in the US.

The Best of New Order

The Best of New Order, also styled (the best of) NewOrder, is New Order's second compilation album, released November 1994 after Substance (1987): 17 tracks, 70 minutes, 7" mixes from 1985 on, four new '94 mixes, UK top 5, later paired with the 1995 remix album The Rest Of New Order.

The Big Day (album)

The Big Day, the 2019 debut studio album by Chance the Rapper (Chancelor Bennett), a 22-track self-released record inspired by his wedding to Kirsten Corley; scored 71 on Metacritic but 3.7 from fans, followed six years later by Star Line.

The Big Lebowski (soundtrack)

The Big Lebowski (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Mercury, February 24, 1998: 14-track T Bone Burnett song compilation with one Carter Burwell cue, 'Wie Glauben'; reissued on LP by Virgin EMI and Mondo.

The Black (Asking Alexandria album)

The Black (2016) is the fourth studio album by British metalcore band Asking Alexandria, released on Sumerian Records. It is their only album with Ukrainian vocalist Denis Stoff, who replaced Danny Worsnop, and peaked at number 15 on the UK Albums Chart.

The Black (Imminence album)

The Black (2024) is the fifth studio album by Swedish metalcore band Imminence, released April 12, 2024; 12 tracks, 52 minutes, violin-led symphonic metalcore produced by Eddie Berg, Harald Barrett, and Henrik Udd.

The Black Album (Jay-Z album)

The Black Album is Jay-Z's eighth studio record, released in 2003. It features 12 producers, including Kanye West and Timbaland, and sold 3.5 million copies.

The Black Album (Prince album)

The Black Album is Prince's sixteenth studio album, an eight-song funk record withdrawn days before its 1987 release and officially issued by Warner Bros. in 1994.

The Black Parade

The Black Parade is My Chemical Romance's third studio album, released October 24, 2006 on Reprise. A Rob Cavallo-produced emo rock opera about The Patient, a dying cancer patient, it spawned the UK No. 1 "Welcome to the Black Parade" and went 4x Platinum in the US.

The Blue Danube

The Blue Danube (An der schönen, blauen Donau), Op. 314, is Johann Strauss II's 1867 Viennese waltz for choir and orchestra, premiered at Vienna's Dianabadsaal, famous after the 1867 Paris World's Fair, and the Vienna Philharmonic's most performed piece.

The Blue Notebooks

The Blue Notebooks is Max Richter's second studio album, released in 2004 on FatCat's 130701 imprint. Tilda Swinton reads Kafka and Miłosz over chamber strings, piano, and electronics; recorded in 2003 as quiet protest against the Iraq war.

The Blueprint

The Blueprint, Jay-Z's sixth studio album (September 11, 2001, Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam), a soul-sampling East Coast hip hop classic produced largely by Kanye West and Just Blaze, selling 427,000+ first week and entering the National Recording Registry.

The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse

The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse (Blueprint 2) is Jay-Z's 2002 double album, sequel to The Blueprint; 25 tracks, debuted at No. 1 with 545,000 copies, later condensed as Blueprint 2.1.

The Blueprint 3

The Blueprint 3 is Jay-Z's eleventh studio album, the final Blueprint trilogy installment, released September 8, 2009 on Roc Nation. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 476,000 first-week US sales and features Empire State of Mind and Run This Town.

The Boatman's Call

The Boatman's Call (1997) is the tenth studio album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds on Mute, a sparse piano-led record shaped by the end of his affair with PJ Harvey, peaking at UK number 22.

The Bodyguard (soundtrack)

The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album, 1992 Arista Records, credited to Whitney Houston and various artists, is the best-selling soundtrack ever at over 45 million copies, with 20 weeks at Billboard 200 number one and the Album of the Year Grammy.

The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond

"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" (Loch Lomond) is a traditional Scottish folk song first published in Vocal Melodies of Scotland in 1841, linked to a Jacobite prisoner after the 1745 Rising, with a pentatonic melody famous through Vaughan Williams and the band Runrig.

The Book For,

The Book For, is the fourth extended play by the Japanese music duo YOASOBI, released on June 26, 2026. Its 12 tracks include the Overwatch collaboration "Orion."

The Book of Love (The Magnetic Fields song)

"The Book of Love" is a 1999 song by Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields, track 12 on volume one of 69 Love Songs; Merritt calls it the album's manifesto. Peter Gabriel's cover (Shall We Dance? 2004, Scratch My Back 2010) made it the band's most-covered song.

The Book of Mormon (musical)

The Book of Mormon is a 2011 satirical Broadway musical by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez about two Mormon missionaries in Uganda; it won nine Tonys and four Oliviers and has run over 5,000 performances.

The Book of Souls

The Book of Souls (2015) is Iron Maiden's 16th studio album, its first double album at 92 minutes, produced by Kevin Shirley and Steve Harris in Paris, reaching UK number one and spawning a two-year world tour.

The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966

The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 is Bob Dylan's 2015 Columbia/Legacy outtakes collection covering the Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde sessions, issued in 2-, 6-, and 18-CD editions.

The Box (Roddy Ricch song)

"The Box" is a 2019 song by Roddy Ricch from Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 11 weeks in 2020, peaked at No. 2 in the UK, and was RIAA-certified Diamond.

The Boxer

The Boxer is a 1969 folk rock ballad written by Paul Simon and recorded by Simon & Garfunkel for Bridge Over Troubled Water; a US #7 single known for its lie-la-lie chorus, 100-hour recording, and elevator-shaft snare drum. Distinct from Kele's 2010 album and Sheridan's 1998 film.

The Boy Is Mine (Ariana Grande song)

the boy is mine is a 2024 Ariana Grande song from eternal sunshine, reimagining Brandy and Monica's 1998 duet and her leaked track fantasize; third single, Christian Breslauer video with Penn Badgley, Brandy-Monica remix, Grammy-nominated.